Jean-Claude Eloy (b. 1938) is the greatest composer of the past half-century I never heard of. A profound engagement with the Japanese Gagaku orchestra—imperial courtly […]
Tag: Ambient
Five questions for Atra Aeterna
Zack Mitchell (aka Atra Aeterna) replied to our Five questions and explains his musical origins, current projects and the methods he utilizes to break new […]
Stormloop :: Snowbound* (Glacial Movements)
There are no great shifts to the glacial isolationist ambient paradigm here, but a consummate execution of a programmatic template. A little more than this, […]
Hanetration :: Tenth Oar EP (Self-Released)
Pealing away at the edges, twenty-nine minutes briskly float away as distressed electronic crackles, horns, reversed loops, fractured vocal samples and tangled strands cascade in […]
ASYMMETRICAL HEAD :: Digital::Nimbus #442 Mix
A virtual smorgasbord of exp-electronics, techno and ambient deformations. Take a trip through turbulent waters as beats, bass and subdued noise weaves its way into […]
Robert Lippok :: Redsuperstructure (Raster-Noton)
Working more like character studies of the individual sounds therein than “songs” with structures and interrelated parts. This is a subtle distinction, much easier heard […]
Oxyd :: Liveforms (Signifier / Aliens Production)
Liveforms remains thoroughly engaged as it elevates thin veils of dark-ambient passages covered in nebulous sheets of chaotic beauty. Oxyd presents a darkened grove of […]
Spheruleus :: Voyage (Hibernate)
What makes this Voyage, indeed our (listening) voyage, resonate is not the literal of the littoral, of dock to deck to descent, but the figurative […]
The Beautiful Schizophrenic & Yui Onodera :: Night Blossom (Whereabouts)
This collaboration between Portugal’s Beautiful Schizophrenic, aka Jorge Mantas, and Japan’s Yui Onodera, who previously made beautiful music with Celer, opens with unobtrusive ambient grace. […]
Variant :: Falling Stars (echospace [detroit])
Twenty-five minutes in and the feedback blossom and blooming strings dissipate, leaving the calmer swell of the delicate pads and sea-salt spray, but very soon […]
Lyr :: Lyr (From A Tree)
Static noise is interwoven through clicks’n cuts, manipulated guitars, tribal tentacles, crumbling techno, post-industrial washes and an extreme focus on the obscure craft of darkened […]
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